1782 Btdletin^y, United States National Museum. 



strong, somewhat compressed, not elevated; ventral i)rocess of basisplie- 

 noid rudimentary, base of sknll strongly curved. Length 24 inches. San 

 Diego to San Francisco, abundant; an important food-tish. (flarklus; 

 ftavns, yellow.) 



Sebastodes flavidus, Atres, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1862, 209, flg. 64, San Francisco (Coll. W. O. 

 Ayres) ; Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 657, 1883. 



2182. SEBASTODES SERRAXOIDES, Eigeiimann \- Eigenmann. 



Head 3 ; depth 3^ to 3^ ; eye 4^ in head. D. XIII, 15 or 16 ; A. Ill, 9 ; lat- 

 eral line 60 (pores). Elongate, slender, the dorsal profile but little more 

 arched than ventral; head compressed, anterior profile almost straight; 

 snout long, pointed; lower jaw iirojccting, its tip entering profile. Eye 

 large, lA in snout, IJ in strongly convex interorbital. Cranial ridges nearly 

 obsolete, none of them ending in spines; nasal spines minute, not evident 

 externally. Parietal bones meeting above. Preorbital without spines; 

 preopercular spines long, slender, the lower ones as well developed as the 

 middle ones in largest sjJecimeDs ; opercular spines as in ^Sebastodes Jtandits. 

 Gill rakers long and slender, as in Sebastodes fiaridus. Scales large, those 

 of head greatly reduced ; snout, mandibles, and e\en the lips closely scaled 

 in the old; palatine patches of teeth peculiar, a constriction near their 

 middle, the anterior angle turned inward. Dorsal fin low, the highest 

 spine al)out 3 in head, notch between the 2 fins deep; caudal notched; 

 anal spines slender, graduated; pectorals not reaching tips of ventrals, 

 not nearly to vent. Gray of varying shades, the back always darker; a 

 series of large white blotches along sides of back much more marked in 

 some examples than in others; fins all more or less strongly tinged with 

 yellow and edgtnl with dusky. Length about 20 Inches. Cortez Banks 

 oflt" San Diego. (Eigenmanu.) {Serranus; Eido?, resemblance.) 



Scbasticthys flavidus, Eigexmaxx & Eigenmann (not of A\-res), West American Scientist 



1889. 128. 

 Sebastodes serranoides, Eigenmann &. Eigenmann, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1890, 36, Cortez 



Banks. (Coll. C. H. Eigenmann.) 



?1S3. SEBASTODES MELAXOPS (Girard). 



Head 3; depth 2|. D. XIII, 16; A. Ill, 8; scales 60 to 70, .53 pores; 

 pectoral 4^. Head long, in form intermediate between ^'. iinistiims and 

 S. Jtut'idus. Maxillary not quite reaching posterior margin of orbit, its 

 length a little less than i head; lower jaw protruding, its tip on a line 

 with descending profile. Eye large. Cranial ridges all scaled over and 

 without spines in the adult; space forward of eye not projecting; pre- 

 opercular spines short, but sharp. Gill rakers longer than in S. mi/stinus, 

 very slender. Dorsal rather low, deeply emarginate, highest spines 21 in 

 head, a little lower than soft rays; caudal slightly emarginate; anal 

 spines small, the second shorter but stouter than third, longer than eye; 

 pectorals short and rather broad, not reaching as far as tips of ventrals, 

 which scarcely reach vent. Scales moderate ; accessory scales numerous ; 

 mandible, maxillary, preorbital, and snout closely scaled. Olive brown, 



